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[rainplace]

Here you go, Anna... I was a bit late getting this up for you.

Dates of Availability...

Breed:
Pekins, Mallard, Golden 300 Hybrid
Weekly Throughout The Year

Buff, Fawn & White Runner, Cayuga February - October

Other Ducks Mid February - December

Their duckling list:
# Black Indian Runner - Pure Black
# Blue Indian Runner - Blue-gray.
# Blue Swedish - Hardy, calm breed, good forager.
# Black Swedish - A hardy, strong duck with good foraging ability.
# Buff - Fine multipurpose breed.
# Cayuga - Greenish, iridescent shine in the sunlight.
# Chocolate Indian Runner - Deep, dark brown.
# Fawn & White Indian Runner - White with buff colored patches.
# Golden 300 Hybrid - Unexcelled egg layer.
# Khaki Campbel - Good egg layer and forager.
# Mallard - True flying ducks, same as in wild.
# Pekin - Most common white duck, excellent for meat production.
# Rouen - Domestic non-flying cousin of wild Mallard.
# White Crested - Pure white duck with orange feet and bill, and a large crest of feathers on its head.
# White Golden Layer- Another high production breed.
# Welsh Harlequin - Excellent egg production. They are calm, inquisitive and excellent foragers.

I think I've bolded all the ducks they are still hatching out. Let me know what you want and how many.

http://www.metzerfarms.com/duck.htm you can look at pictures

 

[KMHunter]

Hi Everyone!

I hope you all had a great holiday. We went to Cle Ellum to my in-laws. It was wonderful! I wanted to update you on the Maltby Community Club. They show it on Thursday evenings at 7:30, and can take reservations and deposits at that time too. I was planning on going next Thursday,since this last one was a holiday. I have an email message out to ask about cancellations. Have a great weekend!

ETA: I mentioned in a past post that I was raising mealworms, and not having any luck. Well, I was sfting through the bran to get the beetles out and feed them to the chickens, when I noticed that the bran looked like it was alive and moving. I looked closer and sure enough I have a ton of tiny worms! I am so EXCITED! I thought they were going to be free loaders too. We are going to decorate the house for x-mas tomorrow. I love the way the house looks so festive. Anyway, just wanted to share.

 

[justbugged]

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I got my Welsummer from Royce aka Tailfeathers, I think in late August. I really should write these kinds of dates down. This is clearly not my forte.

I got some of his older chicks that he still had in his brooders pens, and some younger ones that were out there to. I don't think I ever knew exactly how old any of them where when I got them. The older ones were completely feathered out. I still kept them all together in the brooder until I got the Salmon Faverolles in mid September. I don't think that this has been much an answer. About the egg color, a number of Royce’s Welsummers, laid speckled eggs. So I don’t think they will change very much, but we will have to wait and see.

Chookchick; I got the Cuckoo Marans from the Randall Burkey Hatchery. I will not buy from them again.

The percentage of cockerels was really high on the straight run chicks; I also ended up with no Silver Lakenvelders that I could keep. Then in the first week or so, all of the Black Sumatra chicks died one after another.

I am fairly sure it wasn't something that I was doing wrong, because all the other chicks were fine. Somehow I ended up with only one of the Cuckoo Marans, and she has really very dark coloring for a Cuckoo Marans. She should have be lighter, more like a Bard Rock's color.
Both of my Marans so far have laid very light brown eggs. At least I think it's them laying the larger light brown eggs. I am very disappointed in that, I really wanted the very dark eggs. I do have 11 Black Copper Marans eggs in the incubator. I forgot to write down the day that I put them in the bator too.

Some days I know without a doubt that I am a dingbat, and other days it's been truly confirmed.

I think they are going to hatch sometime next week, maybe Thursday? Maybe I will e-mail the seller from E-bay, and ask her if she remembers what day she shipped them to me.

If any of them hatch they will have really good lines from some of the original imports, and the eggs are really dark in color.

Rainplace Your dog snores really loudly.

She also passes really nasty gas.

I hate cheep dog food, it make the gas smell worse. But she is getting better each day.

Tomatolady I might have to reevaluate our friendship, if you don't stop giving me living things..... Oh!! Wait that was just my DH talking.

P.S. So much for not talking so much on the Washington thread. Isn't ADD a lot of fun.

 

[KellyandKatie]

wow- I am not going to attempt to read the entire thread- but hi! hi! hi!
I am a kitsap lady- I have two turkeys, three silkies and four muscovies at the moment. I am looking for a half dozen hens, not sure what breeds yet though, lots to research
I also have a very cool cat, two doofey dogs and three wonderful little girls- and teh world's best husband who understands that my love language apparently is chickens
anyway! hi! hi! hi!

 

[KMHunter]

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Hi There!

We love this thread. Everyone here is so nice and fun to talk to. And sometimes very entertaining.

 

[tomato lady]

Justbugged, you willingly took the kittens. BTW, I still have two more beautiful grey ones.

You can't count the Tinfoil Barbs until tomorrow when I deliver them. And, on a positive note, I still have my goats lounging on my deck. (they could be lounging on your deck) DH curses every time he goes out to smoke. I think he mutters something about goat poo on the deck.

I got 15 eggs today!

 

[rainplace]

Justbugged, are you calling that dog, my dog? Hah! My hubby says no dogs, so he can't be mine

KellyandKatie, you'll like it here!

tomato lady, you have kittens? Hubby and I were just talking about maybe getting another one or two...

AND the news of the day, the muscovies are gone! I am one happy gal

 

[tomato lady]

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Yes, Rainplace, I have two adorable grey kittens and I deliver. Just have to get my pet carryer back from Justbugged. She used it to take home those two chickens she saved from freezer camp on our trip south. I think her husband is going to black-list me if animals keep going home with her when we get together.

If you are interested in the kittens just pm me.

 

[justbugged]

Rainplace The kittens look like Russian Blue mixes. I am talking to Tomatolady on the phone and she says "I deliver". Tomatolady is going to check out whether or not they pink kittens or blue kittens.

I have managed to get homes for most of the other kittens.

I still have one at my house that has been named Misery.

She is still seriously upset that I even exist. Her face is like

The first time I picked up the little cat, she bit me so bad that I was bleeding several spots on my hand.

Her first name was Satan.

She is very miserable now in my sewing room. But I was able to finally pet her without leather gloves on just last night.

Little by little she is becoming accustom to being fed canned cat food, and my being around everyday. I hope soon she will be able to be placed with someone.

All the other kittens are much more personable. And Ellis the one I am keeping likes my dogs, and the other cats are warming up to him so he is a keeper for sure.

About the dog. I am going to call it your dog because you posted the listing from craigslist here on the thread. I wasn't even looking at craiglist pet postings, I have figured out that it always seems include something I just need to rescue.

And I figured out that if your DH says no dogs at your house, he didn't say that you can't have a dog that lives lives at my house.

Zhou Chow is a bit like having a room ornament. She does have a bad habit of laying right in the way when we are walking around. I am really very good at walking around all the obstacles though, And at least Zhou is easier to climb over than Puppy is.

Oops It took me too long to post before Tomatolady did. I had to peel the purple potatoes.

P.S. I do have a strange sense of humor. I got it from my Dad.

 

[justbugged]

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A very warm welcome KellyandKatie If you can you might want to read the posts from the last month or two. We have been trying to plan a party on February 28th. This is so we can all meet finally. We were going to do it potluck style, and we are hoping to rent the Maltby Community Center. I know that we have a number of members that live out on the Kitsap Peninsula.